Plenary Sessions
Opening Session
| Address by João Correia, President of CIVITAS, the Portuguese League for Human Rights (in Portuguese) |
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| Address by Abdou Diouf, General Secretary of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (in French) |
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PDF – 54.5 kb
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| Address by Mamounata Cissé, Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (in French) |
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PDF – 72.5 kb
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| Address by Sidiki Kaba, President of the FIDH (in French) |
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PDF – 108 kb
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Keynote Speeches
| Migrations and the right to asylum in a globalised world, presentation by Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Research Director at the CNRS (in French) |
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PDF – 25.1 kb
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| The protection of migrant persons: what is the contribution of the international Human Rights system?, presentation by Bacre Wally Ndiaye, Director of the Human Rights Procedures Divisions, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (in French) |
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PDF – 64.1 kb
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| Refugees and Displaced persons in Europe, presentation by Damtew Dessalegne, Deputy Regional Representative of the High Commission for refugees (UNHCR) Regional Office in Rome |
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PDF – 30.6 kb
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| EU Migration policy, presentation by Sandra Pratt, Deputy director of the Unity "Asylum and Immigration", DG Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission |
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PDF – 62.4 kb
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Closing Session
| Address by Carlos Monjardino, President of the Fundation Oriente and president of the board of CIVITAS, the Portuguese League for Human Rights (in Portuguese) |
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| Address by Driss El Yazami, General Secretary of the FIDH (in French) |
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Regional Workshops
| The rights of migrant workers in Israel, presentation by Oded Feller, attorney, member of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) |
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PDF – 68.7 kb
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| Presentation by Sabika Al-Najjar, President of the Bahrein Human Rights Society (BHRS) (in Arabic) |
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PDF – 63.5 kb
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| Presentation by Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and Special Rapporteur on Refugees and Displaced Persons in Africa |
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PDF – 105.3 kb
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| Presentation by Cynthia Gabriel, Deputy General Secretary of the FIDH and member of Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) |
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PDF – 39.9 kb
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| The hidden war of undocumented and trafficked Asian Women migrant workers, presentation by Tati Krisnawaty, Presidium of the Indonesian Women Movement for the Protection of Migrant Workers (GPPBM) |
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PDF – 105.3 kb
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| For an integration without walls, presentation by Camilo Castellanos, Regional Coordinator of the InterAmerican Platform for Human Rights (in Spanish) |
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PDF – 24.8 kb
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| Migration internal to Central America: the exemplary case Nicaragua - Costa Rica, presentation by Vilma Nuñez, President of the CENIDH and Vice-President of the FIDH (in Spanish) |
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PDF – 33.5 kb
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| The Human Rights of Migrants: the only reference framework possible, presentation by Javier Mujica, Centro de Asesoria Laboral del Peru (CEDAL) (in Spanish) |
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PDF – 614.8 kb
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| Presentation by Claire Tixeire, liaison officer of the FIDH with the UN in New York, on the fact-finding mission on migrants at the Mexico-United States border |
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PDF – 82 kb
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| Internal Displacements of Persons in Columbia: a humanitarian tragedy, presentation by Soraya Gutiérrez Argüello, member of the Colectivo de Abogados "José alvear Restrepo" (in Spanish) |
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| The European Union and migratory issues, presentation by Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Research Director at the CNRS (in French) |
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PDF – 33.7 kb
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Thematic Workshops
| From protection of the migrant to the rights of the migrant person, by Sylvie Saroléa, lawyer and researcher (Belgium) |
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PDF – 129 kb
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| The Human Rights of Migrants and the contradictions of the principle of sovereignty. Strategies, opportunities and challenges for the civil society, presentation by Pablo Ceriani, Argentinean Legal and Social Studies Centre (CELS) and Professor, UNESCO Chair 2007 at the University of Valencia, Spain (in Spanish) |
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PDF – 52.8 kb
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